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Thank you for first reading the one line of Necessary Background before
getting to question: When I got my IBM computer with XP several years ago,
both My Documents and My Computer were listed under My Network AND under My
Computer were listed a folder called [my name --- i can't disclose it in this
newsgroup]documents (so in effect every Word document appears in 2 places in
my computer). Since XP was new I assume this was supposed to happen. HERE
IS THE QUESTION: when I open History, not only does it show the Web pages I
looked at each day but it also has a listing for each day called My Computer
and within it are all the documents I viewed that day whether word docs or
excel docs. I never noticed if My Computer and the docs were part of History
before. ALSO, when I delete the My Computer from a particular day's history
e.g. I delete it for Monday, when I go back to history and I click on that
day again nothing appears on a list even though there were previously web
pages listed separately from the My computer listing containing documents I
viewed. Since Microsoft often sends updates perhaps they added this? I
thought that History was only supposed to show web pages you view. Of course
there isn't any info I can find about this. I have AdAware and keep Ad Watch
running on manual and only allow changes when I have just allowed a Windows
Update. Full scans with AdAware does not show that I have any spyware on my
system. I also have Norton Anti-virus and updates are automatically loaded
and a full scan did not show any problems. Does anyone know if History is
supposed to display My Computers and within it all the documents viewed that
day?
getting to question: When I got my IBM computer with XP several years ago,
both My Documents and My Computer were listed under My Network AND under My
Computer were listed a folder called [my name --- i can't disclose it in this
newsgroup]documents (so in effect every Word document appears in 2 places in
my computer). Since XP was new I assume this was supposed to happen. HERE
IS THE QUESTION: when I open History, not only does it show the Web pages I
looked at each day but it also has a listing for each day called My Computer
and within it are all the documents I viewed that day whether word docs or
excel docs. I never noticed if My Computer and the docs were part of History
before. ALSO, when I delete the My Computer from a particular day's history
e.g. I delete it for Monday, when I go back to history and I click on that
day again nothing appears on a list even though there were previously web
pages listed separately from the My computer listing containing documents I
viewed. Since Microsoft often sends updates perhaps they added this? I
thought that History was only supposed to show web pages you view. Of course
there isn't any info I can find about this. I have AdAware and keep Ad Watch
running on manual and only allow changes when I have just allowed a Windows
Update. Full scans with AdAware does not show that I have any spyware on my
system. I also have Norton Anti-virus and updates are automatically loaded
and a full scan did not show any problems. Does anyone know if History is
supposed to display My Computers and within it all the documents viewed that
day?